ERIC Number: ED278721
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1981
Pages: 544
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Female Immigrants to the United States: Caribbean, Latin American, and African Experiences. RIIES Occasional Paper No. 2.
Mortimer, Delores M., Ed.; Bryce-Laporte, Roy S., Ed.
Seminar papers on the recent immigrantion of women from the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa are collected in the first part of this two-part book. Titles (and authors) of the papers are: (1) "The New Immigration: The Female Majority" (Roy S. Bryce-Laporte); (2) "Race, Ethnicity, and Sex in the Recent Immigration: Some Preliminary Comments" (Delores M. Mortimer); (3) "Black Immigrant Women in 'Brown Girl, Brownstones'" (Paule Marshall); (4) "Caribbean Migration: A Perspective on Women" (Monica Gordon); (5) "Goin' Abroad': Working Class Jamaican Women and Migration" (A. Lynn Bolles); (6) "Migration and Sex Roles: A Comparison of Black and Indian Trinidadians in New York City" (Judith Burgess and Meryl James-Gray); (7) "Profile of a Haitian Migrant Woman" (Susan Huelsebusch Buchanan); (8) "Ethnic, Racial Attitudes among Professional and Managerial Black Women: Research Note" (Audrey Johnson); (9) "Nigerian Women and Child-Bearing Practices in Washington, D.C.: A Summary of Research Findings and Implications" (Dorothy Payne Bryan); (10) "Caribbean Women and the Brain Drain" (exerpt, Donna Gray); (11) "Black, Female, and Foreign-Born: A Statement" (Barbara T. Christian); (12) "Ma, I Remember" (poem, Eugenia A. Franklin-Springer); (13) Latinas Lead the Way" (Lucy M. Cohen); (14) "Exporting Capital and Importing Labor: The Role of Women" (Saskia Sassen-Koob); (15) "The Differential Incorporation of Hispanic Women Migrants in the United States Labor Force" (Helen I. Safa); (16) "Evaluating a Work Incentive Program: Report on Employability Services for Hispanic Women" (Palmira N. Rios); (17) "Mexican Undocumented Women Workers in Los Angeles: A Research Note" (Reynaldo Baca and Dexter Bryan); (18) "Black Cubans in the United States: Basic Demographic Information" (Lourdes Casal, with Yolanda Prieto); (19) "Obituary to a Female Immigrant and Scholar: Lourdes Casal (1938-1981)" (Roy S. Bryce-Laporte; (20) "An Afterword" (Elsa M. Chaney): (21) "Women and Migration: A Bibliography"; (Delores M. Mortimer) introduces the second part of the volume, which consists of a sizable, but selected bibliography on non-European female immigrants and related topics. A list of contributors and seminar panelists is included. (KH)
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Opportunities, Family Role, Females, Hispanic Americans, Immigrants, Latin Americans, Migration Patterns, Racial Relations, Sex Role, Womens Education
Public Information Office, Department of Anthropology, NHB363, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560 (free, limit of one copy).
Publication Type: Books; Reference Materials - Bibliographies; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Research Inst. on Immigration and Ethnic Studies.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A